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Spatial Patterns of Carbon Emissions in the U.S.: A Geographically Weighted Regression Approach

This paper uses U.S. county-level data to examine the extent of geographical variability in the process liking total emissions of carbon dioxide to measures of population, affluence, and technology. Results from geographically-weighted regression models show that there is strong evidence of geographical heterogeneity and that the magnitude, and in some cases, the direction, of the effects vary within and across the 48 contiguous states in the U.S. These results suggest that we ought to be cautious of policy recommendations based on global models that ignore or account imperfectly for spatial dependence.